What on the roads has annoyed you today?

[Guest worth_the_wait]

Probably been mentioned numerous times before ... but the amount of litter on some roadsides is horrendous.   

 

How fckin lazy do you have to be, to not just take it home and put it in a bin?

[Trav Le Bleu]

The muppet in an electric car who parked next to a fuel pump in a petrol station to use their shop. Not only that, he parked so wide of the pump that cars who had finished fueling behind him couldn't get past.

 

Takes a special level of selfishness or ignorance, maybe both.

 

 

[foxfanazer]

People driving around with their full beams on. Selfish pricks 

[HighPeakFox]

28 minutes ago, foxfanazer said:

People driving around with their full beams on. Selfish pricks 

Alongside the nobbers who use pathetic sidelights and forget they have their foglights on.

[adam1]

Yes I shall

 

- wind down my window

- politely call you a fcking idiot

-  flick the finger

 

When you continue to drive towards me and stop at the narrowest point.

 

Just because I am 3/4 on your side of the road due to parked cars, does not give you right of way if I'm already committed.

[Tommy G]

3 hours ago, adam1 said:

Yes I shall

 

- wind down my window

- politely call you a fcking idiot

-  flick the finger

 

When you continue to drive towards me and stop at the narrowest point.

 

Just because I am 3/4 on your side of the road due to parked cars, does not give you right of way if I'm already committed.

 

[adam1]

4 hours ago, Tommy G said:

 

I'd watch it if I were you. I've thrown a kettle over a pub. What have you done?

 

 

[Grebfromgrebland]

50 minutes ago, adam1 said:

I'd watch it if I were you. I've thrown a kettle over a pub. What have you done?

 

 

I've thrown a tennis ball over a house and kicked a football. So much fun!

[adam1]

On 18/07/2025 at 17:29, adam1 said:

People not understanding what lane they want to be in. 

 

 

Anstey

 

Stadon Road into the Nook.

 

Two lanes and three exits. The exits are Cropston Road (left), Leicester Road (staggered straight over), Bradgate Road (right). The  Left lane is marked left and straight over. Right lane is marked right.

 

Why do people go into the right lane to go straight over and then cause a collision? Surely the dim wits will clock the three possible exits marked on the road and deduce which lane they need to be in.

This weekend a complete bell end in a tesla decided it was my fault that he lacked the intelligence to work out what lane he needed to be in.

 

It was my fault for being in the lane marked left (Cropston) and straight over (Leicester) when I was going to Leicester. It was my fault he needed to drive over the markings of his lane  because he stil couldn't work out he was in the wrong lane.

 

 

 

[Trav Le Bleu]

Dickheads driving down the wrong side of Jarrom St to queue-jump into the LRI carpark and people stopping in said queue blocking ambulance exits.

[adam1]

People who pull over into a small gap between parked cars to allow oncoming traffic to pass..... when there are car(s) behind them who are then left with nowhere to go.

 

People who see a car pulling into a gap and see that theres other cars behind them who cannot move out of the way.... and cannot apply simple logic and so carry on regardless and cause a gridlock.

 

Ladies in SUVs who can't put their car through a gap which is 1.5m wider then their car. Actual quote -  "I can't go any further because my sensor is telling me" as I look down the side of my car and see a big fxking gap.

 

Oh and the first car which pulls in then refuses to move when the clever people understand the issue and flash them to come through. They were also female. Hmmm.

[Parafox]

5 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Dickheads driving down the wrong side of Jarrom St to queue-jump into the LRI carpark and people stopping in said queue blocking ambulance exits.

 

Many times I've been unable to get out of the old A&E exit onto Jarrom St because of what you mention, even with blue lights. And then those blocking the exit get all panicky resulting in even more chaos.

 

It's now just non-emergency patient transport vehicles that use that exit.

Edited 25 February by Parafox

[Parafox]

Fooking taxi drivers.

 

Always in the wrong position on the road. No indicators. Suddenly changing direction. Crawling along at 15mph...

 

I could go on. Their daily job is to drive. Why are they so universally crap at it?

[Voll Blau]

Google Maps insisting that I was sat in a cul-de-sac in Narborough and telling me I'd be home in 40 minutes, rather than acknowledging I was sat in that M1 shitshow 50 yards away instead earlier.

[CrazyKopCorner]

Taxi drivers are shite - never use their mirrors and no consideration for anyone else. 
 

Drivers who break first and signal only at the last second. 
 

If I had an uzi there would be multiple deaths on the road every day 

[The Bear]

That second one really annoys me too. 

[HighPeakFox]

Some nutter wielding an uzi in his Metro.

[Free Falling Foxes]

On 09/04/2026 at 19:53, CrazyKopCorner said:

Taxi drivers are shite - never use their mirrors and no consideration for anyone else. 
 

Drivers who break first and signal only at the last second. 
 

If I had an uzi there would be multiple deaths on the road every day 

Cycling across the city to and from work every day, I had so many examples of inconsiderate motorists.

I used to imagine one of the buttons on my cycles electronic odometer, fired a missile that blew the offending car and it's driver to smithereens.

Childish? Yes. Pathetic even. But it made me feel better.

I did 'mature' however.

I started to have a large stuby nut and bolt hanging from my handle bars on a piece of cotton. The idea was I would snap it off and throw it at the car responsible for cutting me up or whatever.

Only ever used it in anger once and hit the rear of the car.

Fortunately, the driver had no idea I was responsible, so I avoided any retaliation. 

 

[worthosoriginals]

Potholes here and there

[Clogger_]

The football annoyed me while driving. And while eating, doing jobs, sh1tting and everything else

[LcFc_Smiv]

9 hours ago, Clogger_ said:

The football annoyed me while driving. And while eating, doing jobs, sh1tting and everything else

F*** sake I came to make the same joke but you're 9 hours wittier than me 

[adam1]

Joining the A46 from the A50 towards the M1 at 30mph.

 

Whilst leaning over the passenger and looking at the passengers phone.

 

Not speeding up, not slowing down, no indicator and driving straight onto the A46 with complete irrelevance if they were going to cause an accident.

 

The accident was only avoided because a lorry driver had recognised the danger and slowed down (i was looking in my rear mirror).

 

I was behind the car and had spotted what was happening so I went over the white lines way before the merging point. As did the car behind me.

 

....

 

 

Then on the return journey, a car was reversing back up the slip road because the A46 was slighly congested.

 

...

 

 

Import third world, get third world.

[Stuntman_Mike]

The amount of people who don't know how to use roundabouts is crazy. 

 

People not indicating at all when they should is one thing, but I've seen so many people indicating the wrong way, or signalling their intent on the exit before. Frustrating 

[adam1]

https://www.northants.police.uk/news/northants/news/in-court/2026/april/suspended-sentence-for-careless-a43-collision-driver/

 

😬. Some people. Jesus christ.

[Legend_in_blue]

On 20/03/2026 at 21:05, Parafox said:

Fooking taxi drivers.

 

Always in the wrong position on the road. No indicators. Suddenly changing direction. Crawling along at 15mph...

 

I could go on. Their daily job is to drive. Why are they so universally crap at it?

The worst offenders are those who use Toyota hybrids.  An absolute menace on the road, no road sense at all.